Discharge mechanism



May 18 1926.

c. A. MoNsoN ET AL DISCHARGE MECHANISM Original Filed Feb. 14. 1920 I 'INVENTORS: fibril]. 111022.500,

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Patented May 18, 1926.

UNETE CARL A. MOll'fiON AND HARRY GEARING, OF LOS ANGELE$, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNORS,

BY IVIESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO HADLEY TAG & IVIACHINE 00., 0F LOS ANG-ELES, CALI- FORNIA, A CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA.

DISGHARGE MECHANISM.

Original application filed February 14, 1923, Serial No. 358,746. Divided and this application filed August 28, 1922.

This invention relates to discharge mechanism such as disclosed in our application for tag making and printing machines, filed Feb. 14, 1920, Serial No. 858,746, from which application the subject-matter hereof has been divided out.

The main object of our invention is to provide a discharge mechanism by means of which identification, shipping and imilar tags may be discharged from tag making machines in piles or stacks ready for storage or packing and shipment or other dispositio The invention has for further objects the provision of a machine of the character stated which will be relatively simple and inexpensive in construction when these factors'are taken into consideration with positivcness in operation, capability of long continued operation without need of repair or replacement, durability, and general efficiency and se 'viceability.

The invention consists in the novel and useful provision, construction, combination, relative arrangement, inter-relation and association of parts, members, features and elements, as well. as the mode of operation of the same, all as developed in the specification and depicted in the drawin in the drawing: 7

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of our discharge mechanism;

Figure 2 is a detail sectional view taken on the line oa -m of Fig. 1; and,

Figure 3 is a view of a unit of four tags which may be discharged from a tag making machine by our discharge mechanism.

Corresponding parts in all the figures are designated by tl e same reference characters.

Referring particularly to the drawing, which shows one form of the mechanism constituting the invention, from which many departures may be made in variation of construction, in adapting the machine to varying conditions in kinds and use of service, A designates the main frame which supports the leading elements and members of the mechanism; R designates means for severing the tag units or groups of units, such as shown in Fig. 3, after their impression; S means for receiving and accumulating such severed tags or groups of tags or Serial No. 584,503.

tag units, and T a stacker towhich such units or tag units are delivered inter-nittently from the accumulator S, and to which stacker such tag or tag units are fed in groups reverses end for end to ensure an even stacking thereof. V designates avmain drive shaft from which power is taken for the operation of the several members and features of the machine in any suitable manner. 7

The printed and'ey'elette'd tag stock 6 may be fed by a pair of rolls Qfrom the tag making machine to the severing means R of our discharge mechanism, for severing said stock into tags or tag groups. These means it comprise a cylinder 53 which is provided with a plurality of transverse knives 5 f, certain'of which may be of a limited length so as to but partially sever.

the stock between the tags of a given group, as, shown in Figure 3, while the remaining knife may be of full width to entirely sever the organized stock and cut from it the group of four or other number of tags shown in Figure 3. Such knives cooperate with a stationary knife or cutter bar 55, the cylinder 53 being disposed above the stock and the bar or knife 55 being disposed beneath it. The severed tags or tag group, now complete, may be delivered from the machine at this point, or may be passed to the accumulator comprising an endless belt or conveyer 56, trained about suitable rolls 57, one of which is a driving roll fast upon a transverse shaft 58, towhich is applied a loose clutch member 59 carrying a gear 86, said clutch member cooperating with a splined clutch member 60 operating lengthwise of the shaft 58 intermittently, by a rocker arm 61, one limb of which is actuated by a cam 62 upon a drive shaft 63 operated through a train of gears 64, 65, 66 and 67, thus taking power ,from the main drive shaft V through gear 82 and bevel gears83 and 84, the bevel gear 83 and the gear 82 being secured on the stud shaft which is journaled'in the frame A, and the bevel gear 84 being secured on shaft V. The clutch member 59 receives its drive through a train of gears 68, 69, 70 and 86, which train of gears is driven through mitre gears 71 and 81 from the main drive shaft V, the mitre gear 81 and the gear 69 being secured on the stud shaft 88 which is journaled in the frame A, and the mitre gear 71 being secured on the shaft V. Thus the accumulator endless belt 56 is given an intermittent movement, serving to discharge from it each stack of the predetermined number of tags or tag groups which are temporarily kept in place by a tension roller 72, such discharge taking place on to the stacker member T. This member consists of an inclined rotatable table 73, upon which the stacked tags or tag groups are retained by the cooperation of an inclined wall 7 4. After each period of advancement of the accumulator belt 56 the standard or central support shaft 75 of the rotatable table 73 is given a half rotation in a bar 76 threaded to receive a threaded portion 76 of the shaft 75 and which half rotation is produced by a gear 77 loose from the shaft 7 5 and adapted to cooperate with a splined clutch member 78 normally retained out of engagement with the clutch gear 77 by a cam 79 at one end of the shaft (33 above mentioned. The clutch gear 77 is rotated by a worm gear 80 secured on shaft 88 and is driven by meshing mitre gears 71 and 81, the mitre gear 71 being on the shaft V.

It is not believed that any separate definition of the mode of operation of the ma chine will be required in order to make clear the performance and action of the mechanism inasmuch as there has been heretofore defined the performance of each member or feature of the machine, and the sequence in which these performances take place.

Having thus disclosed our invention, we

claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a machine of the character disclosed, means for stacking completed tag units, a transferring accumulator comprising a continuous belt member for conveying the tag units to the stacking means, means being provided for intermittently operating said transferring accumulator, and means for temporarily maintaining a pre-determined number of tag units on said transferring accumulator; said means for stacking completed tag units including an inclined rotatable table, and an inclined wall member acting in conjunction with the table.

2.111 a machine of the character disclosed, means for stacking completed tag units, a transferring accumulator comprising a continuous belt member for conveying the tag units to the stacking means, means being provided for intermittently operating said transferring accumulator, and means for temporarily maintaining a pro-determined number of tag units on said transferring accumulator; said means for stacking completed tag units including an inclined rotatable table, and an inclined wall member acting in conjunction with the table; there being means for intermittently rotating said table after each period of inter mittent movement of the transferring accumulator.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification.

i CARL A. MONSON. HARRY GEARING. 

